Maxent Maxent 42" HD-Ready Plasma Monitor - MX-42HPM20

Maxent MX-42HPM20

Maxent 42" HD-Ready Plasma Monitor - MX-42HPM20 Review, by Christopher Null and Laura Blackwell July 19, 2006

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• Latest User Reviews 2 reviews
• Reviewed by: stumckay

  Duration of ownership: 11 Months

  Strengths: None

  Weaknesses: Terrible Tech Support and Repair service.

  Overall: We have had this product for 11 months now and it has once again died on us. Four months after we brought it home it died, just up and died. The TV completely lost all function. After 2 months of chasing Maxent to fix their problem it was repaired, however I had to pay for 2 months of cable service for nothing, Thanks Maxent. After 4 months of working properly, guess what? Its DEAD again. I called Maxent and guess what? I'm still chasing these BASTARDS!!!!!. IN SHORT, AVOID THIS PRODUCT/COMPANY. THEY MAKE TERRIBLE PRODUCTS AND DO NOT STAND BEHIND THEM.

• Reviewed by: DarkHorse

  Duration of ownership: 2 Months

  Strengths: Great Quality for its price, lots of audio/video connectivity options, handles non-HD signals very well, very solid HD picture

  Weaknesses: Lack of built in tuner, Menu options not as robust as others, changing between Inputs takes longer than usual, remote/remote sensor on TV seems picky and only take the signal when directly pointed at TV.

  Overall: I have broken in my TV with 100 hours of watching time before I calibrated with the AVIA DVD. After some more fine tuning I cannot disagree more with PCWorld's review on the picture quality of this TV. For the $1499.00 I paid for this set I am amazed at what I am getting. This set was sitting side by side in the retail store with other much higher priced name brand TVs running the same image and it was up to par or better than the others. I know this isnt a $5000.00 quality TV and maybe thats why the review by PCWorld was low, they are used to reviewing the high-end stuff but for the price and normal consumer, you dont need to drop more than the $1400.00 I paid to get a great picture from your plasma. I was watching a nature show on DiscoveryHD and a close up of a red tailed hawk was being shown. I was sitting there with my mouth hanging open at the detail I could see with this hawk. Unbelievable. The colors were spot on and I could see every detail of the feathers, eyes, talons, everything. To this day I still think about how amazing that hawk looked! I do agree with the review about some of the menu setting as some pictures to look to be a little washed out or some skin tones too red. But at the same time it appears to be the signal I am getting from the sattelite as this is not always the case on all channels. Another huge plus is how this TV handles standard def. TV. A lot of bigger screen TV's just butcher the image, but this set does very well with the picture and is very watchable. I give this TV and VERY HIGH good rating, bordering on very good, especially for its price.

• Reviewed by: stumckay

  Strengths: None

  Weaknesses: Extremely Poor quality and sub-standard/human tech and repair service

  Overall: We have had this product for 11 months now and it has once again died on us. Four months after we brought it home it died, just up and died. The TV completely lost all function. After 2 months of chasing Maxent to fix their problem it was repaired, however I had to pay for 2 months of cable service for nothing, Thanks Maxent. After 4 months of working properly, guess what? Its DEAD again. I called Maxent and guess what? I'm still chasing these BASTARDS!!!!!. IN SHORT, AVOID THIS PRODUCT/COMPANY. THEY MAKE TERRIBLE PRODUCTS AND DO NOT STAND BEHIND THEM.